Fingerprint recognition device and manufacturing method thereof, display panel and manufacturing method therof and fingerprint recogniton method

ABSTRACT

The present disclosure provides a fingerprint recognition device and a manufacturing method thereof, a display panel and a manufacturing method thereof, a display device, and a fingerprint recognition method. In the fingerprint recognition device of the present disclosure, the collimator transmits the collimated light reflected by the fingerprint and blocks the scattered light, so that the light emitted by the light emitting layer is reflected by the finger, and the approximately collimated reflected light can transmit through the collimator while the oblique light is blocked by the collimator. The sensor recognizes the ridges and valleys of the fingerprint according to the area through which the light is transmitted by the collimator. The fingerprint recognition device may be manufactured by a simple manufacturing process and have strong practicability, and is suitable for fingerprint collection and recognition in the display area of the organic light emitting diode display.

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION

The present application claims priority to Chinese Patent ApplicationNo. 201710750277.X filed on Aug. 28, 2017, the disclosure of which ishereby incorporated by reference in its entirety.

TECHNICAL FIELD

The present disclosure relates to the field of display technology, andin particular, to a fingerprint recognition device and a manufacturingmethod thereof, a display panel and a manufacturing method thereof, anda fingerprint recognition method.

BACKGROUND

An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display is also known as anorganic electroluminesence display (OELD). Among various types of flatpanel displays, OLED displays have advantages such as wide viewingangle, high brightness, high contrast, low driving voltage, and fastresponse.

Fingerprints are inborn and invariable characteristics of a human body,and are unique to everyone and can be used to distinguish from others.Each fingerprint comprises a series of ridges and valleys at skinsurface of fingertip, and the ridges and the valleys generally includedetails of ridge bifurcation, ridge ending, arch (e.g. tented arch),left loop, right loop, whorl or twin loop, etc., these details determineuniqueness of fingerprint. Implementing fingerprint recognition on adisplay has become an important application.

SUMMARY

An embodiment of the present disclosure provides a fingerprintrecognition device including: a light emitting device configured to emitlight toward a fingerprint contact side; a collimator provided on asurface of the light emitting device away from the fingerprint contactside and configured to allow a portion of light reflected by afingerprint to transmit therethrough to obtain collimated light; and asensor provided on a surface of the collimator away from the lightemitting device and configured to receive the collimated lighttransmitted through the collimator and recognize the fingerprint basedon the received collimated light.

In some implementations, the collimator includes a first light blockinglayer having a plurality of first openings, a second light blockinglayer having a plurality of second openings, and a transparent basicmaterial layer sandwiched between the first light blocking layer and thesecond light blocking layer, wherein the first openings and the secondopenings are in one-to-one correspondence.

In some implementations, an orthographic projection of the first openingon the transparent basic material layer falls within an orthographicprojection of the second opening corresponding to the first opening onthe transparent basic material layer.

In some implementations, the first openings and the second openings areof circular shapes, and a line connecting a center of the first openingand the second opening corresponding to the first opening isperpendicular to the transparent basic material layer.

In some implementations, the first opening has a diameter of d1, thesecond opening has a diameter of d2, and the transparent basic materiallayer has a thickness of t, where d1/t<1/5, d2/t<1/5.

In some implementations, d1 ranges from 2 μm to 50 μm, and d2 rangesfrom 2 μm to 50 μm.

In some implementations, d1 ranges from 2 μm to 20 μm, and d2 rangesfrom 2 μm to 20 μm.

In some implementations, the second light blocking layer is providedcloser to the sensor than the first light blocking layer, a refractiveindex of a medium between the second light blocking layer and the sensoris n3, a refractive index of the transparent basic material layer is n2,both of a distance between centers of two adjacent second openings and adistance between centers of two adjacent first openings are p, and a gapbetween fingerprint ridges is pf, where

${{{t*{\tan \left( {\arcsin \left( \frac{n_{3}}{n_{2}} \right)} \right)}} + d} < p < {{pf}/2}},$

and d is any one of d1 and d2.

In some implementations, a medium between the second light blockinglayer and the sensor includes air or an adhesive.

In some implementations, the light emitting device includes an organiclight emitting diode.

In some implementations, the organic light emitting diode includes asubstrate, a cathode and an anode provided above the substrate, and alight emitting layer provided between the cathode and the anode, and thecollimator is provided on a surface of the substrate away from the lightemitting layer, and the collimator is provided between the substrate andthe sensor.

In some implementations, the transparent basic material layer includesPET, COP, PI or thin glass.

An embodiment of the present disclosure provides a display panelincluding: a display substrate including an organic light emittingdiode, the organic light emitting diode is configured to emit lighttowards a fingerprint contact side; a collimator provided on a surfaceof the display substrate away from the fingerprint contact side andconfigured to allow a portion of light reflected by a fingerprint totransmit therethrough to obtain collimated light; and a sensor providedon a surface of the collimator away from the display substrate andconfigured to receive the collimated light transmitted through thecollimator and recognize the fingerprint based on the receivedcollimated light.

In some implementations, the display panel includes a display area andan edge area around the display area, and the collimator and the sensorare provided in the display area.

In some implementations, the display substrate is a transparent displaysubstrate.

An embodiment of the present disclosure provides a display deviceincluding the above display panel.

An embodiment of the present disclosure provides a fingerprintrecognition method, which is carried out by using the above fingerprintrecognition device, the fingerprint recognition method includes thefollowing steps: reflecting, by a fingerprint, light incident onto thefingerprint, so that the reflected light transmits to the collimator;transmitting, by the collimator, collimated light in the reflected lightand blocking, by the collimator, scattered light in the reflected light;receiving, by the sensor, the collimated light and recognizing, by thesensor, the fingerprint based on the collimated light.

An embodiment of the present disclosure provides a manufacturing methodof the above fingerprint recognition device, including: providing thesensor; forming the collimator above the sensor; and forming the lightemitting device above the collimator.

In some implementations, the step of forming the collimator above thesensor includes: forming a first light blocking layer above the sensorand forming an array of first openings in the first light blocking layerby a patterning process; forming a transparent basic material layerabove the array of first openings; forming a second light blocking layerabove the transparent basic material layer, and forming an array ofsecond openings in the second light blocking layer by a patterningprocess, wherein the first openings and the second openings are inone-to-one correspondence, and the step of forming the light emittingdevice above the collimator includes: forming the light emitting deviceabove the array of second openings.

An embodiment of the present disclosure provides a manufacturing methodof the above display panel, including: providing the display substrate;forming the collimator on a surface of the display substrate away from alight exiting side thereof; and forming the sensor on a surface of thecollimator away from the display substrate.

In some implementations, forming the collimator on a surface of thedisplay substrate away from the light exiting side thereof includes:forming the first light blocking layer on a surface of the displaysubstrate away from the light exiting side thereof, and forming an arrayof first openings in the first light blocking layer by a patterningprocess; forming the transparent basic material layer on a surface ofthe first light blocking layer formed with the array of first openingsaway from the display substrate; forming the second light blocking layeron a surface of the transparent basic material layer away from the firstlight blocking layer, and forming an array of second openings in thesecond light blocking layer by a patterning process, wherein the firstopenings and the second openings are in one-to-one correspondence, andforming the sensor on a surface of the collimator away from the displaysubstrate includes: forming the sensor on a surface of the second lightblocking layer formed with the second openings array away from thedisplay substrate.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of a fingerprint recognitiondevice according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 2 through FIG. 6 are schematic structural diagrams of a fingerprintrecognition device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 7 is a schematic diagram of a fingerprint according to anembodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 8 is a flowchart of a manufacturing method of a fingerprintrecognition device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 9 is a schematic structural diagram of a display panel according toan embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 10 is a flowchart of a fingerprint recognition method according toan embodiment of the present disclosure; and

FIG. 11 is a flowchart of a manufacturing method of a display panelaccording to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

In order to make a person skilled in the art understand technicalsolutions of the present application better, the present applicationwill be described in detail below in conjunction with accompanyingdrawings and embodiments.

The fingerprint recognition device of the OLED display product in therelated art is generally provided in a bezel area, resulting in that thefingerprint recognition device occupies space of the bezel area, whichis disadvantageous to achieve a narrow bezel design.

An embodiment of the present disclosure provides a fingerprintrecognition device, as shown in FIG. 1, the fingerprint recognitiondevice includes a light emitting device 30, a collimator 1 and a sensor2. The collimator 1 is provided on a surface of the light emittingdevice 30 away from a fingerprint contact side (i.e., a surface of thelight emitting layer 30 of an organic light emitting diode away from alight exiting surface thereof) to allow collimated light in lightreflected by a fingerprint to transmit therethrough and block scatteredlight. The sensor 2 is provided on a surface of the collimator 1 awayfrom the light emitting device 30, and configured to receive thecollimated light transmitted through the collimator 1 and recognize thefingerprint according to the collimated light.

In the fingerprint recognition device of the present embodiment, thecollimator 1 transmits the collimated light reflected by the fingerprintand blocks the scattered light, so that after the light emitted by thelight emitting layer 30 of the organic light emitting diode is reflectedby the finger, approximately collimated light may transmit through thecollimator while the oblique light is blocked by the collimator 1. Thesensor 2 recognizes the ridges and valleys of the fingerprint based onthe light transmitted by the collimator 1. The fingerprint recognitiondevice may be manufactured by a simple manufacturing process and has astrong practicability, and is suitable for fingerprint collection andrecognition in the display area of the organic light emitting diodedisplay, and since the collimator is provided, only the collimated lightcan transmit therethrough, thereby reducing the interference of thescattered light, improving the fingerprint detection accuracy.

An embodiment of the present disclosure provides a fingerprintrecognition device, as shown in FIG. 2, the fingerprint recognitiondevice includes an organic light emitting diode 3, a collimator 1 and asensor 2; wherein the collimator 1 is provided on a surface of the lightemitting layer 30 of the organic light emitting diode 3 away from thelight exiting surface, to allow collimated light in light reflected bythe fingerprint to transmit therethrough, and blocks the scatteredlight. The sensor 2 is provided on a surface of the collimator 1 awayfrom the light emitting layer 30, and configured to receive thecollimated light from the collimator 1 and recognizes the fingerprintbased on the received collimated light. The collimator 1 of the presentembodiment includes a first light blocking layer 11 having a pluralityof first openings 14, a second light blocking layer 12 having aplurality of second openings 15, and a transparent basic material layer13 sandwiched between the first light blocking layer 11 and the secondlight blocking layer 12, wherein the first openings 14 are in one-to-onecorrespondence with the second openings 15.

FIG. 2 is a schematic structural diagram of a fingerprint recognitiondevice of the present embodiment, and FIG. 3 is a partially enlargedview of the collimator 1. FIG. 2 shows the sensor 2 provided at thebottom, the collimator 1 provided on the sensor 2, and the substrate 31,the light emitting layer 30, the encapsulation layer 32 and the coverlayer 33 provided above the collimator 1, and the finger 4. As can beseen from FIG. 2, the light emitting layer 30 emits light, and the lighttransmits through the sequentially stacked encapsulation layer 32 andthe cover layer 33, and is irradiated onto the ridges or valleys of thefingerprint of the finger 4, the fingerprint of the finger 4 reflectsthe light back, the reflected light transmits through the cover layer33, the encapsulation layer 32, the light emitting layer 30 and thesubstrate 31 to reach the collimator 1, and is modulated and selected bythe collimator 1, then the collimated light having an incident anglewithin a corresponding range transmits to the sensor 2, and the sensor 2recognizes the ridges and valleys of the fingerprint based on the lighttransmitted by the collimator 1.

As an implementation of the present embodiment, an orthographicprojection of the first opening 14 on the transparent basic materiallayer 13 falls within a range of an orthographic projection of thesecond opening 15 corresponding to the first opening 14 on thetransparent basic material layer 13.

FIG. 4 is a perspective view of the collimator 1. As can be seen fromFIGS. 3 and 4, dimensions of the first opening 14 and the second opening15 may be different. The dimensions of these openings may be adjustedaccording to requirements of actual products.

As an implementation of the present embodiment, the first openings 14and the second openings 15 are of circular shapes and have the samedimensions, and a connection line connecting a center of the firstopening 14 with a center of the second opening 15 corresponding to thefirst opening 14 is perpendicular to the transparent basic materiallayer 13.

That is to say, in the present embodiment, a case where the firstopening 14 and the second opening 15 are the same in dimensions andshapes, and the centers of the first opening 14 and the second opening15 directly face each other is described as an example. The connectionline connecting the center of the first opening 14 with the center ofthe second opening 15 is an axis (also referred to as a central axis).Generally, the light parallel to the central axis is a paraxial light.If the light has a large angle with respect to the central axis, it isnon-paraxial light. For example, light with an angle of 10 degrees orless with respect to the central axis is called paraxial light, whilelight with an angle greater than 10 degrees with respect to the centralaxis is called non-paraxial light. In the present disclosure, theparaxial light is considered to be the collimated light.

Referring to FIG. 5, the light reflected by the finger is in ascattering state, wherein the collimated light C and D can transmitthrough the collimator 1 to reach the surface of the sensor 2, and thelight B with a relatively large angle will be blocked by the first lightblocking layer 11 and the second light blocking layer 12, and the lightA with a larger angle is totally reflected on a lower surface of thetransparent basic material layer 13 and cannot transmit through thetransparent basic material layer 13, thus the first openings 14 and thesecond openings 15 serve to ensure that the useful collimated light cantransmit therethrough.

As an implementation of the present embodiment, the second lightblocking layer 12 is provided closer to the sensor 2 than the firstlight blocking layer 11. A refractive index of a medium between thesecond light blocking layer 12 and the sensor 2 is n3, a refractiveindex of the transparent basic material layer is n2, a distance betweenthe centers of two adjacent second openings 15 is p, a diameter of thesecond opening 15 is d, and a pitch of the fingerprint ridges is pf,where

${{t*\tan \mspace{11mu} \left( {\arcsin \mspace{11mu} \left( \frac{n_{3}}{n_{2}} \right)} \right)} + d} < p < {{pf}/2.}$

Similarly, for the first light blocking layer 11, the above formula isalso satisfied, and will not be described herein.

Further, as shown in FIG. 6, the light entering the transparent basicmaterial layer 13 has an incident angle of θ₁ and a refractive angle ofθ₂, where θ₂=arcsin(n₁×sin θ₁/n₂), and the light on the lower surface ofthe transparent basic material layer 13 has an incident angle of θ₃,where

θ₃=θ₂=arcsin(n1×sin θ₁ /n2)  (1),

Since an interface between the second light blocking layer 12 and thesensor 2 is usually formed of air or a medium with low refractive index,as long as it is satisfied that the θ₃ is larger than the totalreflective angle, that is,

$\begin{matrix}{{\theta_{3} > {\arcsin \left( \frac{n_{3}}{n_{2\;}} \right)}},} & (2)\end{matrix}$

the light would be confined in the transparent basic material layer 13without reaching the sensor 2, so that interference of scattered lightwould not occur.

According to the above formulas (1) and (2), it can be obtained that theincident angle θ₁ satisfies the following formula (3):

$\begin{matrix}{\theta_{1} > {\arcsin \mspace{11mu} {\left( \frac{n_{3}}{n_{1}} \right).}}} & (3)\end{matrix}$

From the above, it can be seen that the light incident from the firstlight blocking layer into the transparent basic material layersatisfying the incident angle of θ₁ in the formula (3) is incident, atan incident angle of θ3 satisfying the formula (2), at the lower surfaceof transparent basic material layer, thereby a total reflection occurs,so that the light cannot transmit through the transparent basic materiallayer.

Further, as can be seen from the above, according to the critical angleof θ₃ of a total reflection, a distance L between two adjacent openingsof the second light blocking layer may satisfy:

$\begin{matrix}{{L > {t*{\tan \left( {\arcsin \left( \frac{n_{3}}{n_{2}} \right)} \right)}}},} & (4)\end{matrix}$

where t is a thickness of the transparent basic material layer 13.

In other words, as long as the width L between two adjacent openings ofthe second light blocking layer is designed to satisfy the formula (4),it is possible to cause the incident light with the incident angle of θ₁to be total reflected at the interface of the second light blockinglayer without transmitting through the transparent basic material layer.

Further, as can be seen from FIG. 6, each of the first openings 14 andthe second openings 15 at the upper and lower surfaces of thetransparent basic material layer 13 satisfies the following formula (5):

$\begin{matrix}{{p > {{t*\tan \mspace{11mu} \left( {\arcsin \mspace{11mu} \left( \frac{n_{3}}{n_{2}} \right)} \right)} + d}},} & (5)\end{matrix}$

where p is a pitch between centers of two adjacent openings.

In summary, in the present embodiment, assuming that the incident angleof the light allowed to be transmitted through the collimator 1 is θ₀,the incident light can transmit through the collimator 1 when itsincident angle θ≤θ₀, and the incident light would be blocked by thelight blocking layer when its incident angle θ satisfies that

${\theta_{0} < \theta < {\arcsin \left( \frac{n_{3}}{n_{1}} \right)}},$

the incident light is totally reflected by the transparent basicmaterial layer so as to be absorbed by the transparent basic materiallayer when its incident angle satisfies

${\theta {\arcsin \mspace{11mu} \left( \frac{n_{3}}{n_{1}} \right)}},$

where θ₀ may be obtained according to the following formula:

sin θ₀ ×n ₁=sin θ₂ ×n ₂

tan θ₂=(d/2)/t

According to the above derivation, the critical angle of θ₀ may be:

$\arcsin {\left\{ {\frac{n_{2}}{n_{1}} \times \left\lbrack {\arcsin \left( {\arctan \frac{d}{2t}} \right)} \right\rbrack} \right\}.}$

In addition, in order to improve the accuracy of fingerprintrecognition, the pitch p between the centers of two adjacent openingsshould be smaller than the pitch pf between adjacent ridges of thefingerprint (see FIG. 7), preferably smaller than half of the pitchbetween adjacent ridges, that is,

${{t*{\tan \left( {\arcsin \left( \frac{n_{3}}{n_{2}} \right)} \right)}} + d} < p < {{pf}/2.}$

In some embodiments, the medium between the second light blocking layer12 and the sensor includes air or an adhesive.

That is to say, the second light blocking layer 12 and the sensor may bebonded by the adhesive, and the refractive index of the adhesive is n3.

In some embodiments, the transparent basic material layer may be formedfrom PET (polyethylene terephthalate), COP (Cyclo olefin polymer), PI(Polyimide), or thin glass.

As an implementation of the present embodiment, air may be providedbetween the second light blocking layer 12 and the sensor, that is, onlythe second light blocking layer is bonded to the sensor at edges, andin-plane medium between the second light blocking layer 12 and thecentral portion of the sensor is air. The effect of such design is toenhance the intensity of the collimated light received by thecollimator, further improving the efficiency and accuracy of fingerprintrecognition by the sensor.

In some implementations, a dimension of the first opening 14 (thediameter of the first opening 14) is d1, and a dimension of the secondopening 15 (the diameter of the second opening 15) is d2, a thickness ofthe transparent basic material layer 13 is t, where d1/t<1/5, d2/t<1/5.

In some implementations, the d1 ranges from 2 μm to 50 μm; the d2 rangesfrom 2 μm to 50 μm.

In some implementations, the d1 ranges from 21 μm to 20 μm; the d2ranges from 2 μm to 20 μm.

That is to say, in order to ensure that the transmitted light isapproximately collimated light, the diameter d of the first opening 14and the second opening 15 should be much smaller than the thickness t ofthe basic material layer, that is, d/t<1/5, for example, 1/10<d/t<1/15,such that the light with the incident angle less than 10° can transmitthrough the collimator 1, where the diameter d1 of the first opening 14and the diameter d2 of the second opening 15 (where d1 and d2 arecollectively referred to as d) may be in a range from 2 m to 50 μm, forexample, in a range from 5 μm to 20 μm.

An embodiment of the present disclosure further provides a manufacturingmethod of the above-described fingerprint recognition device, as shownin FIG. 8, including the steps of: providing the sensor 2; forming thecollimator 1 above the sensor 2; and forming the light emitting diode 30above the collimator.

More specifically, the step of forming the collimator above the sensor 2includes: forming a second light blocking layer 12 above the sensor 2,and forming an array of second openings in the second light blockinglayer 12 by using a patterning process; forming the transparent basicmaterial layer 13 above the array of the second openings 15; forming thefirst light blocking layer 11 above the transparent basic material layer13 and forming an array of first openings in the first light blockinglayer 11 by using a patterning process, wherein the first openings 14are in one-to-one correspondence with the second openings 15.

Furthermore, the step of forming the organic light emitting diode abovethe collimator 2 includes: forming the organic light emitting diodeabove the array of second openings.

The organic light emitting diode in the present embodiment is formed bya conventional method, and details thereof are not described hereinagain.

An embodiment of the present disclosure provides a display panel. Asshown in FIG. 9, the display panel includes: a display substrate 4including an organic light emitting diode 3, the organic light emittingdiode 3 is configured to emit light toward a fingerprint contact side; acollimator 1 provided on a surface of the display substrate away fromthe fingerprint contact side and configured to transmit collimated lightreflected by a fingerprint therethrough; a sensor 2 provided on asurface of the collimator away from the display substrate 4 andconfigured to receive the collimated light transmitted through thecollimator and recognize the fingerprint according to the receivedcollimated light.

As an implementation in the present embodiment, the organic lightemitting diode 3 for fingerprint recognition is realized by an organiclight emitting diode for display in a display panel. Further, theorganic light emitting diode 3 may include a cathode 301, an anode 302,and a light emitting layer 30 provided between the cathode and theanode. In addition, a hole injection layer (HIL), a hole transport layer(HTL), an electron transport layer (ETL), and an electron injectionlayer (EIL) may be further provided between the cathode and the anode.

In the present embodiment, the collimator 1 includes the first lightblocking layer 11 having a plurality of first openings 14, the secondlight blocking layer 12 having a plurality of second openings 15, andthe transparent basic material layer 13 provided between the first lightblocking layer 11 and the second light blocking layer 12; wherein thefirst openings 14 are in one-to-one correspondence with the secondopenings 15. The first light blocking layer 11 is provided immediatelyadjacent to the lower surface of the display substrate, and the secondlight blocking layer 12 is provided proximal to the sensor 2. Thecollimator and the sensor may be formed as one separate device inadvance and then bonded onto the lower surface of the display substrate;or the collimator 1 and the sensor 2 may be formed directly on the lowersurface of the display substrate during the process of manufacturing thedisplay panel, thereby forming an integrated structure.

As an implementation of the present embodiment, the display panelincludes a display area and an edge area around the display area, andthe fingerprint recognition structure is provided in the display area.In this case, since the organic light emitting diode for display in thedisplay panel is used for fingerprint recognition, it is required thateach of the layer structures of the display substrate is made of atransparent material to ensure that light reflected by the finger can beincident onto the sensor 2 for performing fingerprint recognition.

That is to say, the display panel of the present embodiment can performfingerprint collection and recognition in the display area, simplifyingthe manufacturing process, reducing the bezel area of the entire OLEDdisplay, thus can achieve a narrow bezel or a bezel-less design.

An embodiment of the present disclosure provides a fingerprintrecognition method, which uses the fingerprint recognition device of theabove embodiment to perform fingerprint recognition. As shown in FIG.10, the fingerprint recognition method includes the following steps:S01, by the fingerprint, reflecting the light irradiated onto thefingerprint to allow the reflected light to transmit to the collimator;S02, by the collimator, transmitting collimated light in the reflectedlight, and blocking the scattered light in the reflected light; S03, bythe sensor, receiving the collimated light and recognizing thefingerprint based on the collimated light.

In the fingerprint recognition method of the present embodiment, thelight emitted by the light emitting layer is reflected by the finger,and the approximately collimated reflected light can transmit throughthe collimator, and the oblique light is blocked by the collimator. Thesensor recognizes the ridges and valleys of the fingerprint based on thelight transmitted through the collimator. The manufacturing method issimple in design and strong in practicability, and is suitable forfingerprint collection and recognition in the display area of theorganic light emitting diode display.

An embodiment of the present disclosure provides a manufacturing methodof the display panel in the above embodiment. As shown in FIG. 11, themanufacturing method includes the following steps: providing a displaysubstrate 4 including an organic light emitting diode 3 that emits lighttoward a fingerprint contact side; forming the collimator 1 on a surfaceof the display substrate 4 away from the light exiting side thereof; andforming the sensor 2 on a surface of the collimator 1 away from thedisplay substrate.

Obviously, the specific implementations of the above embodiments mayalso be varied in many ways, for example, the specific thickness of eachof the layer structures may be adjusted according to productrequirements, and the specific dimensions of each component may bevaried according to actual conditions. For example, in the abovemanufacturing method of the display panel, the collimator and the sensormay be previously formed as one separate device, and then the device isbonded to the lower surface of the display substrate during themanufacturing process to form a display panel having a fingerprintrecognition function.

An embodiment of the present disclosure provides a display deviceincluding any of the above display panels. The display device may be anyproduct or part having a display function, such as an electronic paper,a mobile phone, a tablet computer, a television, a display, a notebookcomputer, a digital photo frame, a navigator, and the like.

It should be understood that, the above embodiments are merely exemplaryembodiments for explaining principle of the present invention, but thepresent invention is not limited thereto. Various modifications andimprovements may be made by those ordinary skilled in the art within thespirit and essence of the present invention, these modifications andimprovements fall into the protection scope of the present invention.

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 31. A fingerprint recognition device, comprising: alight emitting device configured to emit light toward a fingerprintcontact side; a collimator provided on a surface of the light emittingdevice away from the fingerprint contact side and configured to allow aportion of light reflected by a fingerprint to transmit therethrough toobtain collimated light; and a sensor provided on a surface of thecollimator away from the light emitting device and configured to receivethe collimated light transmitted through the collimator and recognizethe fingerprint based on the received collimated light.
 32. Thefingerprint recognition device according to claim 31, wherein thecollimator comprises a first light blocking layer having a plurality offirst openings, a second light blocking layer having a plurality ofsecond openings, and a transparent basic material layer sandwichedbetween the first light blocking layer and the second light blockinglayer, wherein the first openings and the second openings are inone-to-one correspondence.
 33. A fingerprinting recognition deviceaccording to claim 32, wherein an orthographic projection of the firstopening on the transparent basic material layer falls within anorthographic projection of the second opening corresponding to the firstopening on the transparent basic material layer.
 34. The fingerprintrecognition device according to claim 33, wherein the first openings andthe second openings are of circular shapes, and a connection lineconnecting a center of the first opening and the second openingcorresponding to the first opening is perpendicular to the transparentbasic material layer.
 35. The fingerprint recognition device accordingto claim 34, wherein the first opening has a diameter of d1, the secondopening has a diameter of d2, and the transparent basic material layerhas a thickness of t, where d1/t<1/5, d2/t<1/5.
 36. The fingerprintrecognition device according to claim 35, wherein d1 ranges from 2 μm to50 μm, and d2 ranges from 2 μm to 50 μm.
 37. The fingerprint recognitiondevice according to claim 35, wherein the second light blocking layer isprovided closer to the sensor than the first light blocking layer, arefractive index of a medium between the second light blocking layer andthe sensor is n3, a refractive index of the transparent basic materiallayer is n2, both of a distance between centers of two adjacent secondopenings and a distance between centers of two adjacent first openingsare p, and a gap between fingerprint ridges is pf, where${{{t*{\tan \left( {\arcsin \left( \frac{n_{3}}{n_{2}} \right)} \right)}} + d} < p < {{pf}/2}},$and d is any one of d1 and d2.
 38. The fingerprint recognition deviceaccording to claim 37, wherein the medium between the second lightblocking layer and the sensor comprises air or an adhesive.
 39. Thefingerprint recognition device according to claim 31, wherein the lightemitting device comprises an organic light emitting diode.
 40. Thefingerprint recognition device according to claim 39, wherein theorganic light emitting diode comprises a substrate, a cathode, an anodeprovided above the substrate, and a light emitting layer providedbetween the cathode and the anode, wherein the collimator is provided ona surface of the substrate away from the light emitting layer, and thecollimator is provided between the substrate and the sensor.
 41. Thefingerprint recognition device according to claim 32, wherein thetransparent basic material layer comprises PET, COP, PI or thin glass.42. A display panel comprising: a display substrate including an organiclight emitting diode, the organic light emitting diode is configured toemit light towards a fingerprint contact side; a collimator provided ona surface of the display substrate away from the fingerprint contactside and configured to allow a portion of light reflected by afingerprint to transmit therethrough to obtain collimated light; and asensor provided on a surface of the collimator away from the displaysubstrate and configured to receive the collimated light transmittedthrough the collimator and recognize the fingerprint based on thereceived collimated light.
 43. The display panel according to claim 42,wherein the display panel includes a display area and an edge areaaround the display area, and the collimator and the sensor are providedin the display area.
 44. The display panel according to claim 43,wherein the display substrate is a transparent display substrate.
 45. Adisplay device comprising the display panel according to claim
 43. 46. Afingerprint recognition method, which is carried out by using thefingerprint recognition device according to claim 31, the fingerprintrecognition method comprises the following steps: reflecting, by afingerprint, light incident onto the fingerprint, so that the reflectedlight transmits to the collimator; transmitting, by the collimator,collimated light in the reflected light and blocking, by the collimator,scattered light in the reflected light; receiving, by the sensor, thecollimated light and recognizing, by the sensor, the fingerprint basedon the collimated light.
 47. A manufacturing method of the fingerprintrecognition device of claim 31, comprising: providing the sensor;forming the collimator above the sensor, and forming the light emittingdevice above the collimator.
 48. The manufacturing method according toclaim 47, wherein the step of forming the collimator above the sensorcomprises: forming a first light blocking layer above the sensor andforming an array of first openings in the first light blocking layer bya patterning process; forming a transparent basic material layer abovethe array of first openings; forming a second light blocking layer abovethe transparent basic material layer, and forming an array of secondopenings in the second light blocking layer by a patterning process,wherein the first openings and the second openings are in one-to-onecorrespondence, and the step of forming the light emitting device abovethe collimator comprises: forming the light emitting device above thearray of second openings.
 49. A manufacturing method of the displaypanel of claim 42 comprising: providing the display substrate; formingthe collimator on a surface of the display substrate away from the lightexiting side thereof; and forming the sensor on a surface of thecollimator away from the display substrate.
 50. The manufacturing methodaccording to claim 49, wherein forming the collimator on a surface ofthe display substrate away from the light exiting side thereofcomprises: forming the first light blocking layer on a surface of thedisplay substrate away from the light exiting side thereof, and formingan array of first openings in the first light blocking layer by apatterning process; forming the transparent basic material layer on asurface of the first light blocking layer formed with the array of firstopenings away from the display substrate; forming the second lightblocking layer on a surface of the transparent basic material layer awayfrom the first light blocking layer, and forming an array of secondopenings in the second light blocking layer by a patterning process,wherein the first openings and the second openings are in one-to-onecorrespondence, and forming the sensor on a surface of the collimatoraway from the display substrate comprises: forming the sensor on asurface of the second light blocking layer formed with the array ofsecond openings away from the display substrate.